House Oversight Committee chairman asks FBI for all correspondence between Trump and Comey

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform made the request Tuesday in a letter to the acting FBI director, Andrew McCabe. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The search for the smoking gun has started.

A key congressional committee wants to know if President Trump obstructed justice, and has asked the FBI for all correspondence between the President and James Comey, FBI director he fired.

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U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform made the request Tuesday in a letter to the acting FBI director, Andrew McCabe.

Chaffetz made reference to a report that said Trump told Comey, "I hope you can let this go," during a conversation about the agency's investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's connection to Russian operatives.

Comey took notes and created a memo about the meeting, according to reports.

"If true, these memoranda raise questions as to whether the President attempted to influence or impede the FBI's investigation as it relates to Lt. Gen. Flynn," Chaffetz said in the letter.

"So the Committee can consider that question and others, provide, no later than May 24, 2017, all memoranda, notes summaries and recordings referring or relating to any communications between Comey and the President."

According to the New York Times, Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting.

"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," Trump told Comey, according to the memo quoted by the Times. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."